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The day after Ernie's letter was given to the newspapers by Warden Frank Sain, Cook County's Assistant Public Defender asked Governor Dwight Green for a stay of execution so that a clemency petition could be prepared. A six weeks' stay was granted. Said Ernie: "If...
Footpads, pickpockets and housebreakers, with all the riffraff who lived by their wits, filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe...
The Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Forty-seven has witnessed the return and triumph of Gamalielese conservatism in American domestic politics. But thanks to a bipartisan foreign policy this swing to the right has not yet produced a noticeable withdrawal from the international arena. Isolationism and pacifism are...
Two Britons appeared before government bodies yesterday but with totally diverse intent. One, the British Colonial Secretary, cried "horror and revulsion" in reporting to Commons the execution of two British Army sergeants in Palestine. The other, King George VI, told the Privy Council, in a 175-year-old ritual, that...
Even the unusual manner of his execution-by internal severance of an artery following spinal anaesthesia-testified to Old 81st's greatness. Veterinarians chose this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body...